Linux Systems Administrator Jobs with Work from Home Options

Linux System Administrator
UK > Work from Home

The median Linux System Administrator salary in Work from Home is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 631 756
Rank change year-on-year +76 +125 -252
Permanent jobs requiring a Linux Systems Administrator 20 44 69
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 20 40 60
10th Percentile £41,650 £42,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,688 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57,500 £170,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £59,800 £185,000 £72,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,487 41,727 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.00% 96.06% 97.39%
Number of salaries quoted 24,961 29,529 41,700
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £79,600
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Linux Systems Administrator
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Linux Systems Administrator in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Linux Systems Administrator trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Linux Systems Administrator.

Linux Systems Administrator salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Systems Administrator
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Linux Systems Administrator over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Linux Systems Administrator salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Linux Systems Administrator job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with remote work options featuring Linux Systems Administrator in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) CentOS
3 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
4 10 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (50.00%) Ansible
5 9 (45.00%) Customer Experience
5 9 (45.00%) Finance
6 8 (40.00%) HTTPS
6 8 (40.00%) SSL
6 8 (40.00%) Ubuntu
6 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
6 8 (40.00%) SaaS
6 8 (40.00%) Capacity Management
6 8 (40.00%) Vagrant
6 8 (40.00%) Inventory Management
6 8 (40.00%) Docker
6 8 (40.00%) Software Delivery
7 6 (30.00%) Azure
7 6 (30.00%) VMware
7 6 (30.00%) Unix
7 6 (30.00%) Python
8 5 (25.00%) Bash
8 5 (25.00%) DevOps
8 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (20.00%) Git
9 4 (20.00%) DNS
10 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
10 3 (15.00%) EDI
10 3 (15.00%) Ingres

Linux Systems Administrator Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) SaaS
2 6 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) HTTPS
1 8 (40.00%) SSL
2 4 (20.00%) DNS
3 3 (15.00%) SMTP
4 2 (10.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (5.00%) HTTP
5 1 (5.00%) Internet
5 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Ingres
1 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Vagrant
2 4 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 8 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) EDI
2 1 (5.00%) LDAP
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (65.00%) CentOS
3 10 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (40.00%) Ubuntu
5 6 (30.00%) Unix
6 3 (15.00%) Debian
6 3 (15.00%) SUSE
7 2 (10.00%) Windows
8 1 (5.00%) AIX
8 1 (5.00%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Customer Experience
2 8 (40.00%) Capacity Management
2 8 (40.00%) Inventory Management
2 8 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Technology Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) Open Source
7 1 (5.00%) CI/CD
7 1 (5.00%) Configuration Management
7 1 (5.00%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (5.00%) High Availability
7 1 (5.00%) Load Balancing
7 1 (5.00%) Migration
7 1 (5.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Shell Script
2 6 (30.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (15.00%) AWK
4 3 (15.00%) sed
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
5 1 (5.00%) PHP
5 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) Docker
2 3 (15.00%) vSphere
3 1 (5.00%) Postfix
3 1 (5.00%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Veeam
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat